Rights and the law
I thought about rights and the law this week, as items in the news lead to those subjects these days.
Monthly Archives: October 2018
Chicago 1968 and free speech
What is the relationship – favorite academic question, because then you can do regression analysis! – between attitudes about free speech, and what happened during the Chicago riots in August 1968?
Mainstream outlets as allies of state security
People do not trust mainstream outlets for a good reason: too often they cooperate with state security. They do not deserve our trust.
Google takedown with extreme prejudice
If he can get Kudlow, someone most people thought was a smart man, to go out on Fox News to talk about the president’s Google analytics, perhaps Trump has more to him than we think.
Information Protection Agency
Elizabeth Warren recently proposed rules to reform corporate governance. The new rules remove corruption, and ensure a voice in corporate …
Strategies to oppose Trump
These are not reasons tied to a political party, or even to an association. They are not particularly political reasons at all. They are reasons tied to personal frustration, disorientation, and helplessness.
End of freedom at Reed College
Reedies Against Racism undertook a mutiny, and succeeded. Consequently, they destroyed in twenty-four months, a set of traditions that developed over more than a century.
The Jeffersonian 